After that, Chen Rong stopped talking, just quietly looked at Wu Shengzhao in front of him, who was somewhat understanding, he was sure that Wu Shengzhao was a person who was determined to resist the Manchus, but he was just ...... Now too many people have an "emperor complex", and it seems that they can't live without an emperor, especially some time ago, the newspaper was arguing about Chen Tianhua's escape to Fuzhou.

"Actually...... Emperor...... The emperor is a piece of bullshit! ”

When it comes to the emperor, Chen Rong was the first to abandon the emperor. It's not because the emperor abandoned him, and it's not just for Yue Xiaofei's sentence "Our old army nourishes your old age!" "It's that simple.

But as he sees every day the so-called high-ranking officials and nobles, scholars, and giant businessmen in Suzhou and Hangzhou in the south of the Yangtze River have not just settled down, they are busy with each other, deceit, intrigue, and selling officials and buying lords, all of them feel that they are smarter than others, and they are all very busy!

Back on the island in the evening, you can see the people from Shenzhou City on this island in the middle of the lake. Among them were merchants, soldiers, civilians, and so on. None of the above "acts" are needed, nor are they allowed, and no one dares to do them. The benefits gained from this kind of "act" are far less than the benefits lost by being punished by the Shenzhou City Court. Everyone understands that it is very hard to do their job well, and the court guarantees that what you get is what you pay for.

Just like the editor-in-chief of "Shenzhou Pravda" Fang Da often said: "The affairs of the world are nothing more than justice and clarity." "Only the city lord of Yue, who has unique and ruthless methods, has done it with such a simple means as a "Shenzhou Law" that governs the heavens and the earth, who else in the world can do it?"

Thinking of this, Chen Rong slowly rolled his eyes and turned his gaze to Wu Shengzhao again. It can be seen that he has listened to his seemingly inconsequential and seemingly profound words, and his heart seems to have gained. At the moment, he was just sipping wine, his eyes looking into the distance a little dazedly, as if he wanted to penetrate the wall, to see the horizon all the time.

Xishan Island is the largest island in Taihu Lake, with an area of about 70 or 80 square kilometers. The central part of the island is rugged, and the near-shore area is relatively flat. Because of the frequent wars in recent years, the island is also inhabited by more than a dozen small villages, mainly relying on fishing for their livelihood.

The two large cities of the Jiangnan Lu Jian State and their nearby areas were completely lost under the attack of the Qing army and the competition of Huang Qingbin. Wu Shengzhao, I don't know if he understood Chen Rong's words, or if he understood the situation in front of him, leading his remnants of the army had nowhere to go, so he had to obey Chen Rong's arrangement and temporarily settle here, in short, he stayed at ease on the island in the center of Taihu Lake.

Early the next morning, he arrived on the island by boat to discuss defense issues with the head of the base here. Before that, he visited the wounded soldiers and his own troops.

The base hospital of the Shenzhou Army in the Taihu Lake in the south of the Yangtze River is not large, it usually only undertakes the medical work of the base garrison here, and the entire hospital with the sweeping aunt does not exceed 30 people, and now if a few thousand wounded soldiers are not sent in, the degree of chaos can be imagined.

Fortunately, on the island, there are naturally civilian branches of Renai Hospital here, as well as Langzhong scattered all over the island, all of which were collected together by the Shenzhou military first.

The hospital was set up in a large group of tents, interspersed with houses that had apparently been built very quickly. A large number of people are coming in and out of these small buildings.

Wu Shengzhao was fortunate to see the "female doctors" and "nurses" of Shenzhou City's specialties here, women in white robes, moving back and forth among the wounded soldiers. Wu Shengzhao was amazed in his heart, and sighed in his heart: "This Shenzhou City is really amazing, even these women look so capable." In addition to admiration in my heart, my contempt for women has also been reduced a lot.

He was also deeply satisfied to see that his injured subordinates were being cared for so carefully. When he saw the army's residence, he couldn't help but admire, the Shenzhou army was indeed ingenious. The soldiers lived not far from the shore on open and flat land.

Obviously, they didn't have that many houses and tents to build quickly, and the soldiers lived in a space surrounded by three vehicles. Above it is a chariot canopy connected by a herringbone roof, and the doorway is also a heavy curtain made of a chariot canopy.

Wu Shengzhao couldn't help but be curious, and opened the curtain to look inside. Inside are two rows of wooden stakes not far apart, and three hammocks are hung in the middle, which can actually accommodate many people. The vacant space under the chariots on both sides had been completely sealed with earth, and because of the large number of people in the house, they didn't feel the cold.

In the end, Wu Shengzhao came to the base on the island and found the commander here. To be honest, leading more than 10,000 people to settle here, Wu Shengzhao felt that there was no future.

Although his life is temporarily left at the moment, the room for maneuver here is so small, what if the Qing army pours all its strength to attack! Hundreds of warships surrounded the island, and the army went ashore to hold out for a few days with the available food and ammunition!

Moreover, now that Hangzhou has also fallen, the "Shengwu Army" has completely lost its supplies, and even if it is trapped on the island in the middle of the lake, it can hold out for how long. Even if the Qing army did not mobilize sailors to attack, in the absence of food and ammunition, more than 10,000 people would sooner or later be defeated without a fight.

Strategically, this place is simply a place of death, but since Shenzhou City has used this and several nearby islands as the base of Shenzhou City in Jiangnan, it has naturally built quite complete supporting facilities. Therefore, the island not only has military camps, but also hospitals, warehouses, training bases, and so on.

Even so, Wu Shengzhao, who was still nervous in his heart, still found the commander of the local garrison, and he wanted to hear his thoughts on this isolated island.

The barracks of the Shenzhou Army, as he had visited, were all two-story buildings made of prefabricated cement parts. The hollow-shaped barracks, the outer ring is the army's residence, the inner ring is the warehouse, the hospital, the training ground, this is simply a fortress, don't say that the Qing army does not have the ability to transport the artillery here, even if it is transported to the island, what can be done about the military camp established in the mountains.

Wu Shengzhao met the person in charge of the base guard as he wished, and it was the young officer who was yesterday. After a few words, Wu Shengzhao knew that he was the battalion commander of the Marine Corps of the Shenzhou Army, and his scope of duty was to hold on to this island and the surrounding islands, and ensure the safety of the personnel on several islands, and at the same time, he also needed to accept other tasks arranged by Chen Rong.

The conversation between the two quickly got to the point. The little officer's face showed the vigor and vigor peculiar to a young man, his black eyes were happily open, and when he spoke, he showed a mouthful of white teeth.